A collaboration between UCL Statistical Science (PhD student Maryam Ilyas and her supervisor Professor Serge Guillas) and UCL Geography (co-supervisor Dr Chris Brierley) on temperatures over the globe has resulted in a paper recently published in Geophysical Research Letters (GRL)[1].

Registration is now open for ‘Practical Statistics for
Medical Research’, a four day training course in study design and statistical
methods delivered by the Biostatistics group at the Department of Statistical
Science. The course is aimed at healthcare professionals or researchers who
wish to learn more about the basic principles of quantitative research methods
and their application in medical science.

Registration
is now open for the UCL Health Economics Symposium on Monday 5 February 2018 at
the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.This
one-day Symposium, organised by the UCL Populations & Lifelong Health
Domain, will bring together a wide range of health economists, providing a
great opportunity for you to find out more about health economics research at
UCL and further afield.

Professor Matthew Wand (Chief Investigator, University of Technology
Sydney) and Dr Gareth Peters (Partner Investigator, UCL) have been awarded a
highly competitive Australian Research Council grant from 2017-2023 totalling $386,828 AUD, with Dr Peters also due to receive as part of this grant an
additional component known as a Discovery International
Award (DIA).

Taylor and Francis,
one of the main scientific publishers in the areas of Statistics and
Mathematics, have put together a campaign to promote the launch of a new Twitter
channel dedicated to STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects. As part of that campaign, Dr Baio's paper on
bias in the Eurovision song contest has featured as a "HERO story" of
a successful paper.

At the 18th
International Conference on Near Infrared Spectroscopy in Copenhagen this
summer Professor Tom Fearn was elected President of the International
Council for Near Infrared Spectroscopy (ICNIRS)
for the next two years.

Dr Ricardo Silva will participate in a panel and
give an invited talk at the Causality Conference 2017, part of the Leverhulme
Bridges programme, a group that aims to bridge the social and mathematical
sciences. The goal of the meeting is to provide the audience with different
perspectives in causal inference coming from a variety of disciplines. The
panel will take place on 28 September 2017, with Dr Silva's talk
scheduled for the following day.

Dr Ricardo Silva will give one
of the invited talks at the Grand Challenges in Data-Centric Engineering
session of the 2017 RSS Conference. The conference will take place at the
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, from 4-7 September. 2017.